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In the Thread: Alessandro Baricco's "Lesson 21" or the challenge of Music and Movie
Post Subject: Alessandro Baricco did it, again!Posted by twogoodears on: 11/3/2011
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Alessandro Baricco, the italian writer, during a (cool, snobbish, culturally provoking and enriching) TV program, "Chetempochefa" conducted by Fabio Fazio, he captured every Man of Good-will's attention with a "letio magistralis" about... you'd bet it?!?! Music and other arts relationship... he ended up in comparing, only apparently weirdly, Handel and (Japanese painter) Hokusai, both living in same times, also if so culturally far away as Earth and Mars - the Japanese artist, i.e. the man behind "The Wave" and other masterpieces of simple paint brush and great feeling and atmosphere was the same Zen hyconoclast;-) who painted with an huge brush a small river on paper, waves and all and then took a chacked and after putting its feets in the red paint, he leave it to freely steps the river pale blue painting... he titled the painting: "Red maple-leaves on the river"... a genius!
Only few hours after the nice Handel's vs. Hokusai essay, Baricco's Facebook page was flooded by dozens appreciations ALL, AAALLL coming from ladies in-love... as Alessandro Baricco is an handsome gentleman I found nothing wrong he ONLY received compliments for his voice, look, his sweater, his cool, understated appearance and so on... BUT, nobody, the several ladies or the two or three guys who also wrote about that... no one didn't comment the so nice hinting to the interaction of aural and visual...
On my part, I felt the sincere, moving love for the ears and eyes interaction which also passed throught the TV-set, usually quite littering our life;-) - so a moment of beauty and ineffable, thanking Baricco's words.
The above reminds me the following: about one year ago, I put on a wall in my (once new) little studio, facing the listening position, a nice oil-on-canvas, a Turner-like vision painted by a local artist, the interpretation of the sea at dawn... and, wow, to my surprise, almost everytime I listen to some specific music, "something" clicks and I loose myself in the brush strokes, the details and, like while looking at the clouds, while lazily walking in springtime, the eyes - sort-of - "see" differently depending on the music played.
Nothing new under the sun, but still mysterious stuff I'm never tired of...
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